Affairs in Kansas Territory
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Excerpt from Affairs in Kansas Territory: Speech of Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 14, 1856 Mr. Johnson. Mr. President, I ask leave to make a report on the resolution referred to the Committee on Printing on Wednesday last, to print sixty-two thousand copies of the majority and minority reports of the Committee 0, 1 Territories in relation to Kansas affairs. The cost of priming sixty-two thousand extra copies, as proposed by the Senator from Ohio, [Mr. Pugh,] will be $2,213. The Committee on Printing have authorized me to report in favor of printing thirty-one thousand instead of sixty two thousand - just half the number. Sixty-two thousand would give one thousand copies to each Senator; but we have thought that five hundred would he sufficient it is for the Senate to judge, however. We report in favor of printing thirty-one thousand of those two reports from the Committee on Territories, the cost of which will be $1,106. The President. The question is on concurring in I the report of the committee. Mr. Trumbull said: Mr. President, I cannot consent, entertaining the views which I hold that this report shall go before the country without expressing my dissent. I am aware, sir, that it is here accompanied by a minority report, which in my judgment, presents this Kansas question in a masterly manner. It utterly refutes the majority report upon the great question at issue: but having been prepared without an opportunity to examine the majority report, it was impossible that it could meet and expose all its unfounded assumptions. Had the two reports gone out together, I would have been content; but, sir the report of the majority has already been placed before the country, unaccompanied by that of the minority. It was sent out in advance of its delivery to the Senate, and has appeared in a newspaper published in the city of New York before it cold be printed in Washington; and containing as in my judgment it does, many unwarranted assumptions, many inconsistencies, many false deductions from admitted premises, and advancing many erroneous propositions, I cannot consent that it shall now pass from our consideration unnoticed, inasmuch as, losing this opportunity, we may not soon have another to express our views upon it. In the remarks which I have to make, I have no idea of putting myself, or the State which I have the honor in part to represent, in the position of defending any such doctrines as the majority report seeks, by argument rather than by direct assertion, to attribute to those who differ from its conclusions. I do not intend to justify interference in the internal affairs of Kansas by the people of any portion of the Union, contrary to law, and in violation of the Kansas-Nebraska act. I do not design to justify either insurrection or treason in any quarter; nor am I to be frightened from a statement of what I believe to be the true condition of things in Kansas, by the cry of insurrection and treason, where none exist. While opposed to insurrectionists and traitors, I am equally opposed to tyrants and usurpers; and would be as ready to assist in putting down the one as the other. I deny, sir, that there is occasion to speak of any of the inhabitants of Kansas as traitors to this Government, or that there is any insurrection in that Territory, such as has been indicated in some of the documents which have been sent to this body. In discussing this matter, it is important to keep in view the distinction between a State and a Territorial Government. Much is said in the report before us of the injustice of one State interfering in the domestic affairs of another - much about the impropriety of attempting to impose an inequality on any of the States. Is there any man in this land who ever thought that the citizens of one State had a right
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